I was on an A53, will not lie and say it was an A54. However the phones are not much different. My A53 would regularly miss keys I typed, and then assume I swiped between a bunch of keys once it started registering my touches again and would type a random letter. It stuttered when changing apps. Websites performed poorly.

I am now on an S23 FE and it is so, so much better. I am not a gamer on my phone (I have a PC for that) so I don’t know what the S23 FE’s performance is for SoC intensive apps, but the keyboard and camera lag on the A53 were infuriating at times.

Battery and screen were great on the A53. That’s about all I can say nice about it.

The A series is choppy for taking pictures and using text based apps

My battery life on my S23 FE is much better than that. The SD8 Gen 1’s issue was overheating which (at least on my model) is not an issue at all.

Have you checked what is draining the battery?